The 500,000-gallon water tower, located at the northeast corner of South Chestnut Street and Davis Street, was a part of the city’s water distribution system beginning in 1953 until 2003.

Loyola University in New Orleans notified developers and neighbors this week it is scrapping preliminary plans for a hotel, conference center and restaurant on its Broadway campus Uptown.

Three undergraduate students at the University of Chicago won a new housing challenge for proposing a citywide vacancy tax. The tax would fund affordable, infill housing.